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It was a great pleasure to join Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS-NUS)’ India in Asia series to talk about Indian and Japan: Two Asian Powers in a Changing Geopolitical Context. It reflected a joint paper/ project I am working on with Professor Laszlo Csicsmann of Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS)/Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA)

My Recent Media Interviews

Interview with BBC World News: Donald Trump’s visit to Japan

Interview with CNA on Japan-South Korea relations

Interview with CNN about Takaichi’s leadership

Interview with CNA: Takaichi seen leading conservative alliance focused on reform and stability

Interview with CNBC: Japan’s new Prime Minister Takaichi isn’t a China hawk, just pragmatic

Interview with Al Jazeera English: Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister

Interview with NewsX World about Takaichi’s policies and visions

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Japan and South Korea’s Complex Relations with China and the impact on Indo-Pacific Based Alliances in the Trump 2.0 Era

The significance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Southeast Asia

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and Opportunities for Interconnections with Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Yoon’s martial law order divides South Korea and may alter foreign policy direction

My interview with KBS WORLD Radio KOREA 24 on Japan-South Korea relations in the Trump 2.0 Era

Summit between US, Japan and South Korea

Impending fallout from Yoon’s political problems

Japan’s Place in Moderating the U.S.-China Strategic Competition in The Indo-Pacific

Japan’s Thatcher Moment – Can Takaichi Thread the Needle Between Trump and Xi?

Japan’s opposition coalition is a recipe for paralysis, not progress

Japan’s foreign policy faces uncharted waters

Japan’s Leadership Test: Beyond Personality Politics to Policy Imperatives

Japan must prepare for a post-American Indo-Pacific

Japan’s LDP Leadership Race – Why Today’s Candidates Fall Short of the Transformative Leadership Japan Needs

Japan Cannot Afford Another Period of Political Musical Chairs

Japan and India must anchor America in the Indo-Pacific

Japan’s New Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru Faces Internal, External Challenges in Lead-up to National Election

What the U.S.-China summit means for Japan

The Generational Divide Shaping How We Understand Japan

Will Takaichi become the prime minister Japan needs?

Interview with CNBC: Japan’s Takaichi will have to be ‘realistic’ about relationship with China